The single bench of district judge Brajesh Pyakurel recorded Mishra and Pandey’s statements and ordered the local administration to release them without bail today. According to court staffer Rama Nanda Adhikari, Mishra and Pandey were freed on the general date after no evidence of their involvement in the murder was found. They have been ordered to be present in the court on August 20.

Acting on the first information report registered by BK’s wife, the district court had ordered the police to present the defendants before the court and issue a 70-day warrant to arrest fugitives on March 10, 2016.